Get informed! Read this book!
“THE ISLAMIST” should be read by anyone and everyone concerned about Islam and terrorism, especially those who think there is some sort of intrinsic connection between the two. Born in London to Indian immigrants, Husain was raised in a community of devoted, compassionate, and deeply spiritual Muslims with a profound love for God and their fellow human beings. But as a teen he was drawn away from his spiritual roots and got caught up in a politicized form of Islamic fundamentalism filled with the rhetoric of hate, violence, and world domination. After five years devotion to this political ideology masquerading as religion, Husain’s sleeping conscience was slapped into wakefulness when he witnessed real bloodshed flowing from the hateful rhetoric he had been propagating. Thus began the long process of cleaning his mind and soul from the poisonous political perversion of the authentic Islamic faith of his youth.
Husain accomplishes two great tasks in “The Islamist.”
- He clearly defines political Islamism as utterly distinct from the spiritual practice of the religion of Islam. As an Islamist, Husain was committed to a political movement that was antithetical to spiritual Islam and used Islam as a tool to influence Muslims and gain support for their cause.
- He names many of the “moderate” Islamic groups that are in fact front-groups for Islamic fundamentalists. This is extremely important so that those of us working for world peace will not be duped into supporting terrorist groups.
This book is an antidote for many of the primary errors that continue to exacerbate the problem between Islam and the West. Again, I say that it should be read by anyone and everyone concerned about Islam and terrorism.
I would think that Islam is defined by the Quran and the life and words of Mohammed.
If you know much about Quran or Mohammed you should know that he those espousing political Islam are the more true to Islam’s roots. Hence the word fundamentalist. When reformation came to Christianity, the bible was where they went to get back to Christian fundamentals. When Muslims do the same they arrive at a religion that is the polar opposite of Christianity. Hate vs. Love, Legalism vs. Grace, Lies vs. Telling the truth, Pride vs. Humility. You decide which “god” is real. If there is a God, then quite possibly there is a Satan. If you were to look at the world for evidence of a supernatural force for evil, would you find evidence? What does it look like? What group is involved in more wars, where is there more hatred, more ignorance, more violence, pride and suffering? It’s everywhere (as is Satan) but Islam by in large is behind more evil that any other one factor. It’s pretty obvious to anyone without bias.
Hi David,
I don’t understand how you could come to those conclusions. Have you read the Quran? If so, then you know nearly every Surah begins with the statement that God is Most Gracious and Most Compassionate. Where is the hate in that? And you also would know that the Quran frequently describes God as Oft-Forgiving, and that the condition for forgiveness is repentance, exactly as in Christianity.
Have you read The Islamist? Have you read any history books written by Muslims? Or is all your information coming from biased sources?
Your last line is particularly ironic, given that your comment appears entirely one-sided and biased against Islam.
But I am glad you commented, and hope you will continue the discussion.
All the very best,
Richard
With the name of God, Peace be unto you.
I think the reader David Olds would do well to reflect upon the fact that maybe the reason Christianity is more ‘peaceful’ today is due to the fact that it is by and large seperated from politics. All one has to do is look at history and see that when Christianity and politics rode in the same cart together there was trouble for all who differed with their view. From jewish pogroms, the crusades, inquisition, the wars of the reformation , the witch hunts, the bloddy clashes between the calvanist and anabaptist in france and on and on…
Even in places where Christinianity does enter into politics there is some violence former Yugoslavia case in point. Othrodox Serbs vs Catholic Croatians vs Bosnian Muslims.
N Ireland Protestants vs Catholics. Infact a person could make an argument that it is the seperation of clergy from state that has subdued this.
I wonder what the person who posted above thinks about Federal Vision, Dominionism, Christian Reconstructionism? What about the writtings of Gary Demar, Gary North and Rushdoony? Ahhh the silence is not so golden now.
The facts are these the largest buddhist temple in south east asia is in Yogyakarta Indonesia borbodur ( I was there and I stood in that temple). It’s not in Thailand or Cambodia. The Sultan of Jawa was a very staunch Muslim and if he wanted to he could have raised that temple to the ground but he did not.
The oldest Christian Churches and Jewish Synagogues in the world until today are in Muslim lands. If Islam was a religion that taught to utterly crush everyone else in their path why are those places of worship still there in Syria, Yemen, Palestine?
The counter argument is always raised “because they feared Christian retaliation from Europe” This argument does not hold water for a few reasons.
1) It doesn’t explain why the Jewish synagogues were not destroyed. The Jews had no military machine to threaten Islam with.
2) The fact is that the Muslims and Christians did clash for 400 years! Imagine that! For 400 years, so this is a perfect opportunity for the Muslims to utterly destroy all Churches in the middle east AND THEY DIDNT.
3) Even if they did attack those Churches “The Church /Rome” wouldn’t have lifted a finger to help them because most belonged to groups considered to be heretical to The Church anyway.
You want me to isolate verses in the New Testament and interpret them for you?
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters–yes, even his own life–he cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:25) I’m sure plenty of cult leaders have used and abused this verse.
“But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them–bring them here and kill them in front of me.'” (Luke 19:27) I could also interpret this as king soverign in peoples hearts. I could make this verse say that if your not prepared to accept Jesus as king and Lord and your saviour than you should be killed.
Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword”.(Matthew 10:34)
For you, brothers, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own countrymen the same things those churches suffered from the Jews, who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to all men (1 Thessalonians 2:14-15)
There’s a nice Anti-Jewish remark for you in the New Testament. How would you like it if I took this verse and justified putting Jews in ghettos, or used it to justify the inquisition, or used it to justify the holocaust? How many cries of ‘Christ Killers’ did these people have to endure? I’m sure that cultivated allot of love indeed.
Interpretation is a very powerful thing it can be used to heal and build bridges and it can be used to kill and destroy bridges.
Those are very important insights Jonathan. Especially the verses relating to the Jews because those verses were indeed used and abused by many Christians over the centuries to torment and murder Jews.
It is time for the truth to be told, and for Christians to accept that fact that we all live in a glass houses. In “Unveiling Islam” the Caner brothers deliberately presented biased information to make Islam look as bad as possible. They are the Christian equivalent of Political Islamism. They were not interested in Truth in any way at all. On the contrary, they wrote the book with the intent to deceive. For example, on page 47 they presented only passages that made the Quran appear to be “vituperative in its assessment of the Jews.” They did not even mention any evidence to the contrary (of which there is much). And worse, they edited one of the verses they did use because it contained positive words about Christians! I’m talking about surah 5:82. Here is how the Caner’s quoted it:
And here is what the whole verses actually says:
When put in context, this verse is not nearly as “vituperative” as the Caner’s tried to make it. Their entire book is saturated with this kind of deceptive CRAP. For example, they say that Allah is completely impersonal and unloving despite the fact that nearly every Surah opens with the most loving and personal language possible in the Arabic rahman (Gracious) and rahim (Compassionate) – words that relate to the semitic root r-h-m meaning a mothers womb. The Hebrew Bible uses this root frequently when describing the mercy of God. The Caner’s can not claim ignorance. This is WILLFUL DECEPTION!
I could go on … but I think I’ll save the rest for the full-blown refutation I will be writing against their book.
Richard
With the name of God, Walakum salaam wr wb brother.
Absolutely! What you said above. Even if you go and look at the Jewishvirtuallibrary here:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/koranjews.html <What is actually anti semetic or anti Jewish or anti Israel that is contained in it? I want to know? Especially strange is how could the Arabs be anti-semetic when they themselves are semites!
Even when those that are highlighted that they feel are bad have to be understood as 'on account of their breaking their convenant' and those "Children of Israel who rejected faith".
Obviously this has nothing to do with those who kept the convenant an those who kept faith. I mean think about it. David and Solomon are righteous prophets in the eyes of Islam and they were Jews. So if all Jews are evil and bad than the Qur'an and Islam has just shot itself in the foot.
I mean if they think that's bad I wonder what they feel about the following passages?
"And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of the his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. And he took the calf which they had made, adn burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, AND MADE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DRINK OF IT" (Exodus 32:19-20)
"The Lord said to Moses, TELL THE ISRAELITES:YOU ARE A STIFF NECKED PEOPLE. Where I to go up in your company even for a moment, I WOULD EXTERMINATE YOU, take off your ornaments, therefore; I will then see what I am to do with you. So, from Moutn Horeb onward the Israelites laid aside their ornaments" (Exodus 33:5-6)
These people obviously have to be distinguished from those who did bad. However, a Nazi sympathizer or someone who has a bone to pick with Jewish people would even be so brazen as to quote these text to endorse holocaust against the Israelites.
"NOT ALL OF THEM ARE ALIKE: of the People of the Book are a portion that stand (for the right) ; they rehearse the Signs of Allah all night long, and they prostrate themselves in adoration. They believe in Allah an dthe Last day; they enjoin what is right, adn forbid what is wrong; and they hasten (in emulation) in (all) good works: they are IN THE RANKS OF THE RIGHTEOUS. OF THE GOOD THEY DO, NOTHING WILL BE REJECTED OF TEM; for Allah knows well those that do right" (Holy Qur'an 5:113-115)
What Allah is saying is that some of them did become very bad and corrupt. All one has to do is read the Old Testament and see the truth of it.
By Allah any Muslim who says oh Allah "curse Israel" is making a huge sin. Because Israel is the name of one of Allah's prophets Jacob!
Even I have heard Muslims pray when the Israeli are butchering Palestinian children and pray 'Oh Allah curse the Jews and oh Allah destroy them" and I heard these petitions interrupted by a Palestinian Imam from Jordan who said, "Why don't you pray oh Allah destroy the wrong doers instead?" He also went further and said, "Why don't you pray that Allah opens their chest and guides them back to the truth" "Why must Muslims always make evil du'a (prayers)"
I have witnessed that myself.
Here is an interesting quote from "The Secret Jews" by Joachim Prinz pp 20, 21 55:
"While thousands of Jews suffered in the rest of Europe, while the crusaders murdered them in the Rhineland and wherever they carried the cross toward Palestine in their holy war, Spanish Jewry celebrated its Golden Era…But the financial backing essential to the battle had come, as we know, from Abravanel, the Jew, who was now in exile. Not a single believing Jew was left in all of Spain or in the Baleric Islands. The Muslims were defeated. Spain was a purely Catholic country. And on August 3, 1492 another triumph was beginning. Christopher Colombus (Christopher Come Rob Us) sailed his three ships towards an unknown world on a voyage which was to fufil two of the great goals of Spain, gold and honor"
Muslims do not have a problem with the Jews our fight is with the Zionist.
Maybe people should explain this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B7ijMjc2Js Why we invite Dr. Finklestein a Jewish man who's parents were annihiliated in the holocaust to come and speak at MSA (Muslim student association)?
It's because he is sick and tired of the propaganda by Zionist Jews, and the fact that they play the holocaust card to no end, while butchering the Palestinians (both Christians and Muslims) and by the way in Israel the soldiers also take their rifles and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK2eJR6dsco&feature=related < There is another video of Israeli Zionist Facist once again brutalizing the Jewish people.
Pat Robertson Mr. 'I am endorsed by Coors Light" aka MR. "Blood Diamond in the Congo" himself loves Israel…
All these people Hal Lindsey, the whole lot of them write all these books about how Muslims are some blood thirsty barbarian horde out to destroy Israel. Christians in the United States need to wake up!
With the name of God, Peace be unto you.
One more video for consideration listen to what this man says, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oeB3QhX2RI& < May Allah bless this Rabbi! Ameen!
He has courage!
I’ve never heard of Finklestein before. Thanks for the link. I think he’ll be a good subject for a post – but he’s very controversial, so I’ll need to do a fair amount of research.
Your last line says it all:
Amen! And I will do everything in my power to help wake them up.
They are Political Christianists that are the moral equivalent of the Political Islamists. They are a threat to freedom in America and peace in the World.
Hey there Jonathan,
There are two statements in your comment that have me concerned. You twice said that the Israelis are “butchering children.” Those are very incendiary words. We all know that there are collateral damages by both sides, but that is a far cry from “delibertely butchering.” And also, we know that Israeli children are deliberately targeted by suicide bombers. So even if the Israelis were butchering children, it would not be a one-sided affair. War is a bloody mess. Indeed, any war that is not purely defensive is a crime. That’s what I want to see stopped. And I don’t think that demonizing one side or the other is the path to a solution.
Please don’t misunderstand my comments. I know that Israel has committed crimes in this war – just like I know that the US committed crimes in the war in Iraq (e.g. Abu Graib). And so have the Islamists. This all “goes with the territory” of war, and that’s why I want to find peaceful solutions.
May the grace of God be upon you,
Richard
With the name of God, As salamu ‘alikum wr wb Brother Richard.
I would hereby like to retract the statement “butchering the Palestinians” and butchering Palestinian children” because of their inflamatory nature and I would like to replace that with “commiting excess and gross human rights violations”.
Yes that is on all sides. I do not see how a a Palestinian suicide bomber who gets on a bus and blows his/herself up killing children and pregnant women think that this is an act approved by Allah.
I used to love one Islamic scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al Qardawi when I learned he was silent on this issue I stopped reading his material. Even one of my trainers in Bahrain who gives lectures about how ‘Islam is peaceful’ I asked him through e-mail his view on this. He told me he would discuss it with me in private.
I was very disturbed this as well and I told him brother please understand that I will not any of your videos or material on my blog because I cannot endorse your inconsistent standards. On the one hand you debate Nonie Darwish and Walid Shoebat on how they misrepresent Islam but on the other hand you are silent about suicide bombers.
Of course this is easy for us to say one way or the other Richard. We are not the Palestinians who suffer daily at the hands of the Israeli yet the story of Ali (the prophet’s companion and cousin) comes to mind.
Once during a battle between Ali and one of the pagans the man spit in Ali’s face. Latter that man became a Muslim and he asked Ali ‘Oh Ali when we were fighting and I spit in your face why didn’t you kill me?” Ali replied if I killed you it would have been out of anger and not for the sake of Allah.
Amazing! In the heat of a battle someone can actually check their intentions of why they want to take another’s life!
Infact the context in which the very first verses about war were revealed to the Prophet Muhammed (saw) state this
Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you. But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not. (Holy Qur’an chapter 2:216) The occasion it was revealed Muhammed (saw) was frowning while two of his companions noteably Hamza was smiling. And it was good news to those who had relatives and family that were killed by the Arab tribe the Quresh that persecuted and made martyrs of the early Muslims.